Information-Theoretic Minimax Regret Bounds for Reinforcement Learning based on Duality
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| author | Bongole, Raghav Gouverneur, Amaury Rodríguez-Gálvez, Borja Oechtering, Tobias J. Skoglund, Mikael |
| author_facet | Bongole, Raghav Gouverneur, Amaury Rodríguez-Gálvez, Borja Oechtering, Tobias J. Skoglund, Mikael |
| contents | We study agents acting in an unknown environment where the agent's goal is to find a robust policy. We consider robust policies as policies that achieve high cumulative rewards for all possible environments. To this end, we consider agents minimizing the maximum regret over different environment parameters, leading to the study of minimax regret. This research focuses on deriving information-theoretic bounds for minimax regret in Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) with a finite time horizon. Building on concepts from supervised learning, such as minimum excess risk (MER) and minimax excess risk, we use recent bounds on the Bayesian regret to derive minimax regret bounds. Specifically, we establish minimax theorems and use bounds on the Bayesian regret to perform minimax regret analysis using these minimax theorems. Our contributions include defining a suitable minimax regret in the context of MDPs, finding information-theoretic bounds for it, and applying these bounds in various scenarios. |
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| spellingShingle | Information-Theoretic Minimax Regret Bounds for Reinforcement Learning based on Duality Bongole, Raghav Gouverneur, Amaury Rodríguez-Gálvez, Borja Oechtering, Tobias J. Skoglund, Mikael Machine Learning Information Theory We study agents acting in an unknown environment where the agent's goal is to find a robust policy. We consider robust policies as policies that achieve high cumulative rewards for all possible environments. To this end, we consider agents minimizing the maximum regret over different environment parameters, leading to the study of minimax regret. This research focuses on deriving information-theoretic bounds for minimax regret in Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) with a finite time horizon. Building on concepts from supervised learning, such as minimum excess risk (MER) and minimax excess risk, we use recent bounds on the Bayesian regret to derive minimax regret bounds. Specifically, we establish minimax theorems and use bounds on the Bayesian regret to perform minimax regret analysis using these minimax theorems. Our contributions include defining a suitable minimax regret in the context of MDPs, finding information-theoretic bounds for it, and applying these bounds in various scenarios. |
| title | Information-Theoretic Minimax Regret Bounds for Reinforcement Learning based on Duality |
| topic | Machine Learning Information Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.16013 |